Superman, the Man of Steel, female, 6 years old!

Their boss relied solely on a simple chart drawn by an old classmate, and in the entire process of 'hypothesis-demonstration-fundraising-betting-waiting-harvesting'...

This company made $120 billion in 2007 by shorting U.S. real estate. In 2008, it made more than $80 billion in profits by shorting banks that lent to the real estate market.

Then this company's largest short-selling behavior in history during the subprime mortgage crisis was written into a book called "The Greatest Trade Ever".

Among the other short-selling forces, there was also a celebrity Anna was familiar with, such as American investment guru George Soros. He arranged a lunch meeting with the owner of Paulson & Co. through his nephew Peter Soros. After learning about the investment strategy...

In just three months at the end of 2007, old man Soros made billions of dollars in profits by short selling.

As an organization that has been hidden and developed in the Marvel world for many years, Hydra's branches and underground economic networks are spread all over the world.

The total economic volume controlled by all Hydra is no less than that of a country.

Although the Lorraine branch of Hydra has only been formed for four or five years, its financial strength is not much compared to other branches.

But in addition to the funds he embezzled from the CIA and his various fixed assets as collateral.

This time, Anna's mother even used Hydra's underground network to rent out the "labor force" of her own agents to other Hydra branches, or promised them future labor, favors, political support, and so on...

This raised a lot of funds from other Hydra branches.

So when it entered the market a year ago, the amount of funds held by the Lorraine branch was much more sufficient than those held by Paulson & Co. and Soros and others.

Paulson & Co. Fund made $200 billion in two years with billions of principal...

As for Lorraine's mother's Hydra branch, as of 08...

Yet he has already earned as much as Tony Stark's fortune from the market.

That’s $800 billion.

And in the foreseeable next few months, their profit figures will rise again.

Of course, these cannot be considered Lorraine's money alone. The vast majority of the funds are public funds belonging to her Hydra branch.

But the most frustrating thing is that after seeing that Lorraine's Hydra borrowed money from him, from last year to now, it has made a fortune in the US subprime mortgage crisis...

Those other Hydra branches that were either watching or suffering losses in this crisis also joined in the short-selling and profit-grabbing operations.

……

Anna didn't know how the United States survived the subprime mortgage crisis in her previous life, in a world without Hydra.

Anyway, in the Marvel world of 08, Anna doesn’t know whether Hydra has ruled the world.

But Anna already knew that these Hydras who joined later had almost dominated the entire short-selling market in the US subprime mortgage crisis.

What is Paulson & Co.?

What financial tycoon Soros?

These are all small fish and shrimp.

They are all just targets set up by Hydra on Wall Street for the US government, or they are just scapegoats left behind.

The real profits from the subprime mortgage crisis have already flowed into Hydra's underground network through various channels.

Although the various branches of Hydra can no longer reap profits as crazily as Lorraine in the later period, these branches have more sufficient funds, more manpower, and a larger scale.

These short-selling players who joined in later did not gain nothing.

According to conservative estimates by Hydra economists, all branches this time achieved unprecedented global Hydra 'cooperation'.

In this subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, they have gained a total of more than 5000 billion US dollars in profits or related real industries.

And through this outstanding contribution to the "Hydra cause", Anna's mother Lorraine has officially become a recognized independent giant in all major Hydra branches.

No more like in previous years...

Although Lorraine is actually an independent boss in the Hydra organization, he still has to be affiliated with the Malik family when dealing with other branches.

Chapter 091 Upgrade to Version 2.0 of the Mechanical Crab

Two or three days after returning from the movie.

The construction site of Anna's farm has changed. It is no longer the scene where Maimai operates the mechanical crab alone and Anna looks pitiful with a big shovel in her hand and digging mud with her butt sticking out.

There are more than twenty heavy construction machines on the construction site now, moving back and forth at the bottom of the pit with the roar of diesel engines and the digging of buckets.

At the bottom of the pit, there are two huge things that look like automatic coal mining machines. The entire large steel machine is crawling at the bottom of the pit, with a round bucket as big as a millstone rotating in front, roaring and digging the mud in the pit with a crackling sound.

After the soil dug out from the bucket is placed on the conveyor belt, it is sent to the soil pile several hundred meters away by the action of a long conveyor belt and rollers at the back.

In addition to these machines, there are also twenty or thirty construction workers hired from my mother on this construction site. Each of these people is now operating a machine and contributing to Anna's digging project.

The equipment and workers in these pits were all additional investments that Anna made on the construction site after she obtained that large loan.

And because of sufficient funds, after these twenty or thirty workers and a large amount of equipment moved in, the construction progress of Anna's underground base far exceeded expectations...

So Anna extended the big pit that she had originally planned to dig all the way to the south, doubling its size on the original basis.

The original large pit is still used as an underground helipad and base facilities.

As for the remaining large pit of the same size separated by a wall, Anna planned to use it as a place to build a high-tech farm after building a one-meter-thick isolation wall between the two.

Anyway, after Anna gets clean energy or learns the technology of the Ark reactor, it will be difficult for her ten-story high-tech farm to make a loss.

……

After Anna made additional investments in the base, Anna and Mai Mai officially left the front-line construction sites and physical labor these days.

The two of them returned to the studio and began to modify the newly purchased construction machinery, or to work on new designs.

For example, the giant mechanical crab with two excavator arms that they originally made was upgraded to version 2.0 by the two of them.

The first mechanical crab was a design that the two of them had almost completed several months ago, but at that time, their knowledge and skills were not as advanced as they are now.

So when it came to Unit-01, they used a lot of public design and outdated technology. Even the chassis was created by Anna cheating by mixing in vibranium.

It would be fine if the robotic arm was directly unloaded from the excavator, but after it was put into operation, the control system and hydraulic mechanism were still a little bit inflexible.

Although it is not unusable, Mai Mai was having a lot of fun playing a third-person driving game on the construction site.

But now that Maimai and Anna can design better machines to replace it, they naturally look down on this thing.

In the hearts of both of them, they are high-end designers, not just workers moving bricks on a construction site.

So after getting a large sum of money, Anna started spending lavishly again.

Although Maimai is not an extravagant little girl in life, when she is doing "scientific research" with Anna, the little beauty is not a frugal person at such times.

After the two outsourced the physical work, repetitive and low-skilled work, and the construction of the construction site.

Anna and Maimai started working on their own 2.0 version of the engineering robot arm and chassis in the barn.

Because they have a lot of money, their design this time is more radical than before, or in other words, it costs more money.

As soon as she got the loan, Anna asked the sales company to get her a Caterpillar heavy-duty mining truck weighing over 200 tons...

This is the largest chassis she can find now.

Although the heavy mining truck she bought was only a semi-finished product, it had no dump box, no cab, and no other miscellaneous items or computer systems. It was a semi-finished product directly pulled from someone else's company's production line.

However, after being promised that she would not have to rely on others for after-sales service, Anna still spent nearly three million US dollars on this chassis.

Then we got the chassis of this heavy-duty mining truck, whose tire alone is 4 meters high, as well as the engine, gearbox, and system on it.

Anna started to customize parts from various industrial companies, or to make specific parts at home.

Mai Mai worked with her to make parts and modify their designs.

Although they didn't have a super helper like Jarvis, after Anna and the others got the large computer that Lorraine's mother placed in the basement...they were actually quite fast at designing their work.

Because there was no plan to sell the product on the market, Anna and Maimai's design this time actually still contained many mature technologies patented by other companies.

However, after the two of them took further training, their design skills have improved significantly.

For example, Mai Mai has come up with a lot of new ideas about the remote control software of the robotic arm, while Anna has made great progress in the fields of metal forging and parts processing.

Especially since she had spent such a long time in Stark's underground laboratory, using her super vision and super intelligence every day to take advantage of Tony's machining experience.

Next to it were ready-made Mark II and Mark III armors serving as samples.

After watching for such a long time, Anna's machining skills and knowledge reserves are no longer the same as the little brat she was half a year ago.

Especially after Anna watched Tony's entire technical route from Mark I to Mark III from start to finish...

Now let’s follow suit.

Anna had already reached the level of hardware processing for the robotic arm, a simplified version of a simplified version of Mark's armored arm...

Ok!

Anna's current level is only half the level of Iron Monger's big and strong robotic arm.

So this time, what Anna plans to install on the chassis of the Caterpillar heavy-duty mining truck is a giant, simplified version of the Iron Overlord's robotic arm.

Chapter 092: I'm in the United States, just got off the plane.

It's said to be a simplified version of Iron Monger's robotic arm, but after a period of "further training" at Tony's house, Anna's current technical level is much more advanced than the excavator arm that was simply moved here before.

At least the two are incomparable in terms of flexibility, reaction speed, and strength.

So although the technology of the robotic arm Anna made is slightly inferior to that of Iron Monger, its structure is also simpler than it.

However, its actual combat capability is much stronger and more durable than Iron Overlord.

After all, one of them is almost made of solid metal, while the other is made into a hollow structure that can fit a hand inside.

The robotic arm Anna made was to be mounted on the chassis of a heavy mining truck, so it was a giant steel structure that had been magnified many times.

Whether in terms of power or strength, it cannot be compared with Iron Monger, a small man of about three meters in height.

In order to increase the strength of this pair of robotic arms, Anna even mixed dozens of kilograms of vibranium into her own robotic arms.

In the end, in order to make it look like that was the case.

On the chassis of a 200-ton Caterpillar heavy-duty mining truck, in addition to the copycat Iron Monger's robotic arm, Anna also built something that looked like a Transformer's upper body on this chassis.

Finally, the entire 2.0 version of the steel behemoth was assembled to the sound of Anna's "hehehe".

In front of her and Mai Mai, a huge monster appeared, 15 meters long, 9 meters wide and 12 meters high.

Continuing Anna's mechanical aesthetic of "bigger is better, more is more beautiful," the entire chassis and robotic arms weigh a whopping 260 tons. When parked in the yard, it towers over the ground like a steel monster as tall as a four-story building.

The 2.0 steel behemoth looks like a steel giant that walked out of an animation. It has two wheels in the front and four in the rear on the chassis, and wheels that are taller than a floor. Each wheel weighs 5.3 tons.

In addition, the two mechanical arms hold a shield in the left hand and a giant sword in the right hand.

This majestic mechanical monster looks like it just got off a Cybertron plane and is in the United States, ready to go to war like the ancient warriors.

……

Whoosh whoosh~~

On a vacant lot in Anna's newly purchased farm, Anna remotely controlled the mechanical giant and swung it a few times with her hands. Then, with a bang, she used the shield held by the mechanical arm to smash a huge rock used for testing.

On the display in front of them, an estimated value of 50 tons of force appeared.

"Maimai, how about it? This can be used to do my work, right?" Anna said to the beautiful girl next to her, while flexibly controlling the steel beast to swing the giant sword in his hand.

Then with a clang, the seven or eight meter long steel sword was inserted into the groove reserved on the chassis.

"It's my turn, it's my turn..."

After Anna inserted the giant sword into the slot on the chassis, Mai Mai hurriedly pushed Anna down from the operating chair.

After climbing into the seat and restarting the connection.

Mai Mai drove this 260-ton monster around the test site with a rumbling sound.

After putting down the 5-ton steel shield in her hand, the beautiful girl picked up a large iron shovel with a fan-shaped surface of almost one square meter from the test field.

Then she controlled the giant beast to turn slightly sideways.

Bend your right hand and carry the large shovel on your shoulder.

Grabbing a large stone with a diameter of 50 centimeters in his left hand, he threw it into the air...

boom! ~